The Vatican document 'Fiducia Supplicans' takes greater pains to emphasize that people are people and not just walking sex acts, and that the Christian God is a God of love and relationships, not to ...

Months ago, I listened to an interview with Rabbi Ariel Burger on the podcast "On Being." What he said about the meaning of blessing stuck with me. He said the Hebrew word for blessing is ...

Pope Francis speaks during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Oct. 18, 2023. AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino Pope Francis’ Dec. 18, 2023, announcement that Catholic ...

When Scott Cover and his family lived in Savannah, Georgia, and their church was throwing out piles of junk during a renovation, there was one item the military officer decided did not belong in the ...

The Irish Blessing is everywhere. “May the road rise to meet you; may the wind be always at your back.” I thought about that recently when I noticed it on the back of the Mass card for the funeral of ...

LYNNWOOD -- At St. Thomas More Parish yesterday, the parishioners were especially unruly. They growled, drooled and bleated and didn't even bother pretending to pay attention. But this was the annual ...

(RNS) — Perhaps it’s time for white American evangelicals to rethink what privilege and blessing mean to us. On Sunday (June 14), Louie Giglio, a white evangelical pastor, held a panel discussion on ...